It’s three months since the Daily Record first revealed that the Scottish Government would provide the £35million needed to ensure that no Scot would be hit by the vicious policy.

That it has taken the UK Government so long to agree to transfer the necessary powers to Edinburgh is nothing short of a disgrace.

But better late than never.

Tenants across the country can now sleep soundly in the knowledge that they will not be penalised by this monstrous attack on the poor.

It is a wonderful victory that shows what can be achieved when the Daily Record’s army of readers swing into action.

This newspaper was determined to keep the misery caused by the unfair tax in the spotlight and force the authorities into action.

So day in and day out, week after week, we exposed the brutality, heartlessness and stupidity of the policy. But this was only possible thanks to our readers.

The bravery of those hit by the tax – who then had the courage to step forward and share their stories with us – was remarkable.

They were a living reminder of the misery caused by the bedroom tax that the politicians just couldn’t ignore.

Great praise must also go to all the campaigners, charities and activists whose research and expert knowledge informed the articles that forced the Government’s hand.

The bedroom tax saw society’s most vulnerable deliberately targeted by their own Government.

Scotland’s response shows that we still care about the disadvantaged and needy.

We came together in a common cause and were victorious, but there is much work still to be done.

The battle over the bedroom tax is won – but the fight for social justice goes on.

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Let the fatcats go

SIX years on from the crash and the bankers still don’t get it.

Yesterday, Royal Bank of Scotland announced better-than-expected profits for the first three months of the year.

You would have thought chief executive Ross McEwan’s first thought would have been a word of thanks for the ordinary men and women who stepped in to save the bank when they brought the country to the brink of ruin.

But no, he was much more interested in complaining that the Government were stopping the 81 per cent taxpayer-owned bank from paying out obscene bonuses.

He trotted out the tedious old argument that if we don’t pay these useless fatcats big bucks, they’ll go and work somewhere else.